Movies Anywhere Expands; Hue Makes Outdoor Lights

Fandango Now joins Movies Anywhere to sync your digital movie library across more devices, Apple buys the unlimited magazine app Texture and Philips Hue unveils new outdoor versions of its smart light bulbs.Links:Fandango Now joins Movies AnywhereApple buys TexturePhilips Hue Outdoor LightsFollow Rich on Social Media:Facebook: http://facebook.com/RichOnTechTwitter: http://twitter.com/richdemuroInstagram: http://instagram.com/richontech

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
More digital movies in more places. I'm Rich Demiro. This
is Rich on Tech Daily. Fandango Now is joining Movies
Anywhere Now. If you're not familiar with Movies Anywhere, this
is a really cool app that basically syncs up your
movie collection. It makes all the movies that you buy,
or I should say most of the movies that you
buy from iTunes, Amazon, Voodoo, Google, and now Fandango now

(00:27):
available in each other's library. So what does that mean. Well,
you can buy a movie on Amazon and watch it
on your iPad through basically Apple's TV app, which is
really nice. They have most of the major studios on board,
including Sony, Disney, Fox, Universal, Warner Brothers, so it works
with almost every movie you buy. Paramount is not part
of the team just yet, but I have a feeling

(00:48):
they're gonna have to join because this thing is really powerful.
Fandango Now launched in twenty sixteen. It's probably one of
the lesser used movie collection libraries, i'd say, but they
do have a large collection of ultra HD movies. I
have been loving Movies Anywhere since it launched because it's
given me more confidence to buy digital copies of movies.

(01:08):
Because now I know that if I buy a movie
on iTunes, I can still watch it on fireTV, my
Android phone or basically wherever you can get the Movies
Anywhere app or the native app, because that's the thing.
It doesn't just put the movie in the Movies Anywhere app,
but actually puts it in the native app. So if
you buy the movie through Amazon, you'll see it in
your Google Play account and vice versa. This is really

(01:29):
cool and I love to see that they continue to expand.
So check it out Movies Anywhere, all right. Next up
Apple buying the magazine app Texture. This is sort of
like Netflix but for magazines. So for ten dollars a month,
you get two hundred more than two hundred digital magazines,
and they've got all the big titles represented like People, Esquire, Time,
Entertainment Weekly, Real, simple Readers, Digest. But keep in mind,

(01:52):
for that ten dollars a month, you don't get a
lot of those weekly magazines like People and Time. Those
require a premium account, which is about fifteen dollars a month.
And really, what Apple's doing here is they are making
a bold move kind of an affront to the whole
fake news thing. Here's the quote from eddieq, Apple Senior
vice president of Internet Software and Services. In a statement
to tech Crunch, he said, we're excited Texture is going

(02:14):
to join Apple, along with an impressive catalog of magazines
for many of the world's leading publishers. We are committed
to quality journalism from trusted sources and allowing magazines to
keep producing beautifully designed and engaging stories for users. I
was a subscriber for many years of Texture. My favorite
feature was really their search engine. So let me tell

(02:34):
you how that works. Let's say you're traveling to a place.
You can see all the articles written about that place.
So if it's like, you know, Hawaii and you're going
to a certain islands, you can read about all the
cool places that these magazines have written about. Or maybe
you like a particular celebrity, you can search for that
celebrities name and see a wide variety of articles written
about them, things they like, whatever. Right now, Apple saying

(02:55):
it's not going to change much about Texture right now,
but I can see a lot more people subscribing because
think about all the new marketing that Texture is going
to get in the app Store, and of course the
ease of subscription with Apple Pay and iTunes, so I
think that's a good thing, and there's some great magazines
on there. Personally, I could not keep up my subscription
because I just found that there was so much stuff

(03:17):
to read on texture that I would literally do nothing
else on my iPad. I would literally every free moment
I had just look at these magazines because there are
so many of them, and it kept me from doing
other stuff. But otherwise really really cool offering. All right. Finally, today,
Phillips Hugh coming out with new outdoor versions of its
smart light bulbs. So three different types of lights, wall

(03:38):
mounted luminaires, a new unique spotlight which is called the
Lily and this can be used as like, you know,
to highlight things in your garden like flowerbeds, and that's
going to be a light that changes to sixteen million
different colors. And then there's the Phillips Hugh Kella, which
is sort of a path light, and you can also
use it to sort of just enhance your outdoor space,

(03:58):
and that also just colors as well. Phillip's Hue lights
are really cool. They sort of created this entire genre
of smart color changing light bulbs. You can control them
with your voice. You can control them on a schedule,
or you can make routines like I have. Some of
my lights in my dining room come on and off
with the sunrise and sunset. So the pricing starts at
thirty dollars a bulb. But these things can get expensive.

(04:21):
The pathlights can run one hundred and thirty dollars. Doesn't
say how many you get for that. It might be
just one. The spotlights, it's two hundred and eighty dollars
for a three pack. They will launch in the US
in July. All right. If you want more information, you
can go to my website. Rich on tech dot tv.
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